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Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going

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This book is a wonderful way to introduce the concept of meditation as a part of life without ever calling it meditation. I'll be using it with all my clients who are reluctant to try meditation for fear it won't fit with their lifestyles. Kundtz succeeds in clearly describing the benefits of "stopping" and noticing, even for a few moments, and does this in language that is accessible to everyone. "Stopping" is an essential survival skill in our crazy, hectic lives. I highly recommend this book to anyone who feels they are living their lives running faster and faster, like hamsters on a wheel. "Stopping" teaches how to begin to get off the wheel in a way that fits into our lives.

This is a straightforward but profound book on cultivating pauses in our lives to enrich our lives and ultimately improve the quality of our existence. It seeks to maximize "the beats in between the notes" as moments to cherish.

In a rush/rush world that seems to have ADD, the suggestions of author David Kundtz resonate. It offers excellent suggestions to "sharpening the saw" by incorporating tiny, medium-sized or extended pause points in our lives to step back, take stock and get ourselves centered.

A wonderful book that merits multiple readings!

STOPPING: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going is an important book. In our busy lives and in the busy culture in which we live, time and space for thinking about our values, about what is important to us, is missing. How do we stop when our world is telling us to do more, more, more? Dr. David Kundtz tells us how in simple, easy to understand and implement ways. Stopping can be a time of a few seconds to a month, or even longer. It is a time when we can breath, take stock of our lives, and creatively be with who we are. The "goal" of stopping is to discover who we are, to remember who we are. So stopping has broad cultural as well as personal implications. This is a beautiful book - it will make a good gift for a busy friend who knows something is lacking from life but doesn't know what that "something" is, or how to get it. It will make a good gift to yourself. Dr. David Kundtz has made this important part of life accessible to all of us. Read it!

This is an excellent self-help book! Forget the complexity of everything else, keep it simple, and learn to just STOP! This book was incredibly helpful, and I want to assure anyone that it "works"! Some readers (especially if you're mainly a "concrete thinker") might not find this book helpful. You have to open your mind a bit. Which is fun! For those who like to live "in the spaces in between" - to use one of Kundtz's favorite metaphors - there is great value in this book--and great value in the price, too! :-)

This book illustrates how simple concepts of stopping, deliberately and totally, can be as effective, if not more effective than even psychological analysis. We just get wound so tight that we are moving and moving quickly, but have little if any direction. I'm only about half way through but have been able to note and implement many techniques that have made a difference in my life, some just as easy as correct breathing. I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have the time to read it!

This isn't a bad book, and I'm sure that many readers will find it well worth while. If you've had much experience of meditation or books on the subject, though, you're unlikely to get much new substance out of this one.

Kundtz is an awkward writer in many places, and his use of poorly thought out analogies (particularly computer-related ones) frankly made me wince from time to time.

The book explains the idea of stopping in the midst of work and taking a mental, physical and spiritual break. Kundtz says the best way to be productive and healthy is to occasionally do nothing, and the book makes a strong case for this. I enjoyed it and learned a few tips that were helpful. It's not a revolutionary book ... for most of us it's a perfect reminder that a deep breath and short meditation is an ideal way to a healthier life.

I just bought this book on a whim as it caught my attention. One look at the list of impressive chapter and subject material and I was hooked. I came home and shared my news with a friend! GET THIS BOOK. Its a keeper !

If you've ever questioned if your in the right place in life this is an excellent tool to help make sense of your thoughts. Everyone pulls what they need out of what they read, this book has a lot to offer. Excellent book !

With all due respect to the precious author's time he spent writing this book - I think this book has not that much to offer to the "hungry", knowledge striving people.
It has a lot of nothing and it is incredibly impossible to get author's points from his chapter filled up with other people's quoatations. Even the quotes were not appropriate to the text in any particular chapter. So...before you spend your hard earned money and your precious time STOP and have a second thought before you decide to buy it.
Simply read the first few pages and you'll get to know what am I talking about.